[elrepo] el7: Intel Braswell i2c host adapter support

[Björn Gerhart]

> Am 18.01.2016 um 20:17 schrieb Phil Perry <phil at elrepo.org>:
> 
> The elrepo standard where a module is backported from an upstream kernel
> is the use any internal module versioning if present or version 0.0 as
> in this case if no versioning information is provided. Thus the version
> will never indicate the kernel it is backported from. The changelog
> should always say which kernel the module was backported from, in this
> case kernel-4.1.15, so that's where users should look for that information.
> 
> So this module will likely progress as 0.0-1, 0.0-2, 0.0-3 etc for each
> new release.
> 
> The nct6775 example you refer to is slightly different as it is not
> backported from the upstream kernel but is maintained out of the kernel
> tree in a separate git repository, thus we use the git date notation to
> indicate the date the source code was pulled from the git tree.
> 
> Hope that makes sense
> 
Yes it does, sounds good. Thanks for explaining.

> If you file a bug with Red Hat I'd appreciate if you could post a link
> here so I may follow it. If we can get native support added to the RHEL
> kernel then we can deprecate our kmod package.
> 
Ok, opened an issue on Red Hat’s Bugzilla - although it’s a kind of change request and not a real bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1300200
I’ll keep an eye on it and inform the list once it gets fixed.

Best - Björn